Fiber to the Home, FTTH

National Broadband Plan is there…

The FCC announced the national broadband plan. An ambitious plan to provide more Americans with broadband access and to bring the US back in leading nations in providing broadband access. The goals are :

Goal 1: At least 100 million U.S. homes should have affordable access to actual download speeds of at least 100 megabits per [...]

100 Gbit networks are coming this year

With a significant rollout starting in the data center and the first deployments of 100-Gbit/s transport in the long-haul network, 2010 is the year for 100G. Over the past eight years, many companies have made major investments in 40-Gbit/s technology with relatively little return, but with an eye on 100G. For some, that investment will [...]

Now more than 5 million FTTH subscribers in North America

November 2009 -  A recent study by RVA Market Research concluded that now more than 5 million people are subscribed to services delived over a FTTH network.  The total of homes connected to a FTTH network almost amount 18 million at this moment.
‘ The march to all-fiber networks is showing no sign of letting up [...]

Fiber to the home broadband keeps on expanding in Asia

Broadband technologies as fiber to the home have experiences tremendous growth the last years. In anticipation of future growth and bandwidth capacity requirements operators like NTT in Japan have invested large amounts in their networks. Growth in the Asean countries varies quite a lot by country. For instance Hong Kong has been an early adaptor [...]

What are the benefits of Fiber to the Home (FTTH)?

This article describes the advantages of fiber the home networks in terms of capacity and costs

Hard times for telecom equipment manufacturers…

During the last weeks many telecom equipment providers have announced their Q1-2009 earnings. And it did not look that good. Perhaps some of us thought that when Verizon and AT&T  announced their very reasonable Q1 figures (both for wireless and wireline like FTTH), the telecom equipment manufacturs must be doing ok as well. Nothing is [...]

Fiber to the Home overview by Verizon

This video is a bit older (2007), but still gives a nice overview of fiber to the home depolyment by Verizon. Verizon offers FIOS in many locations, FIOS is a true example of a fiber to the home program, where the fiber really runs to the homes. Check out their video on <a href=” </a>.

Fiber to the Home (FTTH) in Latin America

Many articles have been written about fiber to the home programs in Asia, the US and Europe. But what is the outlook for Latin America?
In the 2007 the estimated broad band penetration in Latin America (Central and South America) is estimated to be around 10-15% of the households.  This is relative low to e.g. North [...]

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